Books on all things placemaking, tactical urbanism, city planning, design and beyond.

• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery

• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

• How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook by Kathy Madden

• How to Study Public Life by Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre 

• Cities for People by Jan Gehl 

• Urban Acupuncture by Jaime Lerner 

• Tactical Urbanism by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia 

• The Art of Citymaking by Charles Landry

• Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Kleinenberg

• Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein

• Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

• Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaser

• Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design by Roger Trancik

• Walking In The City With Jane written by Susan Hughes and illustrated by Valérie Boivin

• Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory by David Grahame Shane

• Psychology & the City : The Hidden Dimension by Charles Landry and Chris Murray

• Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg

• The New Urban Agenda - an action-oriented document that mobilizes UN Member States and other key stakeholders to drive sustainable urban development at the local level.

• Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

• Tūrangawaewae. Identity and belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw

• Being Pakeha Now: Reflections & recollections Of A White Native by Michael King

• Celebrating the Southern Seasons: Rituals for Aotearoa by Juliet Batten

• Imagining Decolonisation by Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Rebecca Kiddle, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton, Amanda Thomas

• Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way by Jim Diers

• Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett

• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

• Wayfinding Leadership: Ground-breaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders by Dr Chellie Spiller, John Panoho and Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr

• Designing Regenerative Cultures by ​Daniel Christian Wahl

• The Enchanted Life: Reclaiming The Magic and Wisdom of The Natural World by Sharon Blackie

• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H.Whyte

• Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh

• The Craftsman by Richard Sennett

• The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

• If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

• Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond

• The Gift by Lewis Hyde

• The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane

• Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

• The Geography of Nowhere by James Kunstler

• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

• A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes

• City: Rediscovering the Center by William Whyte

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Vital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs

• Losing Eden: Why Are Our Minds Need Wild by Lucy Jones

• Dream Play Build: Hands-On Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places by James Rojas and John Kamp